Tuesday’s F-35 crash in rural Nevada marks the first accidental loss of the fifth-generation fighter jet since January 2025.

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A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet crashed on March 31, 2026, north of Las Vegas within a restricted ...

The F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II represent two contrasting philosophies in modern airpower: air superiority versus ...

A video shared by Iranian state media on 19 March purports to show a US-operated Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter being struck by an unspecified Iranian air defence weapon. The footage depicts an ...

US Air Force and Energy Department personnel load a pair of unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs onto an F-35 at Hill Air Force Base on Aug. 19 for testing. The Energy Department and Air Force in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The IDF receives additional F-35 fighter jets at the Nevatim Air Force Base. January 18, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON ...

That first flight came almost four years to the day that the Finnish government announced it had selected the F-35 as the winner of its HX Fighter Program. NATO member Finland is one step closer to ...

The Ministry of Defence has downplayed reports that several F-35B Lightning II jets are currently unaccounted for on the ...

The F-35 was not built to win dogfights, but to operate smoothly at long ranges and over long periods of time. The F-35 is often compared to the F-16 or the F-22, nimble aircraft with world-class ...

Claims about modifying the F-35’s software raise legitimate sovereignty questions. But cybersecurity architecture, cryptography, and sustainment realities define strict limits on what can and cannot ...